Top 20 College Football Traditions/Chants
Top 20 College Football Traditions (Chants and Moments):
20. Iowa Hospital Wave
19. Texas A&M Aggie War Hymn
18. Nebraska Tunnel Walk
17. Florida "I Won't Back Down" by Tom Petty
16. LSU "Neck" Chant
15. Ohio State O-H-I-O chant
14. Michigan State "YES" Chant
13. Texas "The Eyes of Texas"
12. Auburn "All I Do is Win"
11. Clemson Stadium Entrance with Howard's Rock and Running Down the Hill
10. Tennessee Rocky Top
9. Tie Between Alabama's Rammer Jammer and Auburn's Iron Bowl Reverse Rammer Jammer
8. Tie Between Pitt and Penn State Versions of "Sweet Caroline"
7. Oklahoma Boomer Sooner Chant
6. West Virginia "Take Me Home, Country Roads"
5. Virginia Tech Let's Go Hokies Cheer and "Enter Sandman"
4. South Carolina Sandstorm
3. Florida State Tomahawk Chop
2. Wisconsin Jump Around
1. Penn State Zombie Nation "We Are Penn State"
If I missed any, tell me in the comments. This is just my opinion. You are entitled to your own. Enjoy
For those saying I should have put in the Army/Navy game, I did not put it in because it's almost its own category, and there are so many great traditions associated with the game, that it would flood up this list. Army/Navy is in a league of its own.
Mark Wilson agreed. Army/Navy is its own spectacle
What an awful list you have here. Jamming out to all I do I win? That’s a tradition?
Playing a techno track is before a game is #4? My god it gets worse as the list goes on, just delete this awful list
Jump around at # 2? Wtf how is that a tradition? So weak, what a shit shit list
Daniel Jones your right that should be #1 nothing else is even comparable only thing close is virginia tech honestly. #1 wtf was that even. Lol
I’d rather watch a college game than pro game anyday
guysmalley I 100% agree
That’s one good thing about Raleigh. So many college teams and rivalries. Only 1 pro team while Charlotte has 3 and maybe soon 4, but we got College football. #GoPack
👎👎👎
James Hayes Wtf is wrong with you
Buslover126 unc is better in every sport besides like women’s lacrosse. But duke is still the worst out of all
the children's hospital wave is wonderful!
Glenn Weeks Always brings tears to my eyes amazing!!
Cant believe that's 20 and tomahawk chop is top 2 shameful
#1
Iowa's wave to the kids is the best new tradition in college football. Certainly the most moving.
@@ericedwards3055 it's been going on for 3 years and the other ones have been going on for longer. It's a top act but tradition-wise it is not that great of a tradition
I’m a die hard Sooner but if you haven’t been to Kyle Field at Texas A&M you ain’t seen nuthin like that. Ever.
You got a believe it!
Thank you and gig em. I’m an Aggie, but 4 time Orange Bowl FB Barry Joyner is a good friend of mine. I took him to 3 A&M OU games, we one all 3, endless to say he will never go with me again. But with the SEC that is unlikely to happen.
I love the Jump Around as a Wisconsin fan but nothing can beat the wholesomeness of the Iowa wave. It makes me smile every time I see it. I hope more teams incorporate traditions such as that
...oh look, (acceptable) hip-hop in Wisconsin.😏
It should be #1 in my opinion. I love them all, but it's the only one that salutes people OUTSIDE the stadium, and those people are our children. No question #1.
Neck should be higher on the list just because they get fined every time they play it 😂 truly sticking to tradition no matter the cost.
Devon Watt gotta agree here...lol... I may be bias as an alumni
Fucking rt GEAUX TIGERS!!!!
War Eagle , but neck is the best chant in college football
they played the worst version of the video
Tigers fans be like "suck this tiger dick bitch" absolutely amazing GEAUX TIGERS!!
Nothing beats college football. Nothing even comes close!
Except real football.
@@TimE-io8zy What is "real football"?
@@TheNightWatcher1385 Americans also insult it as soccer.
@@TimE-io8zy Soccer is a term invented by the British. Calling soccer, "football" never caught on in America because by the time more Europeans were calling it, "football", we had already developed our own sport called football. Get your panties out of a twist and accept that soccer is a legitimate name for the sport.
kzhead.info/sun/lKuDksacaH-XmoU/bejne.html. Come watch a soccer game here in Brazil or in Argentina we will blow your mind :D the team in the link is Palmeiras from São Paulo, Brazil
I’m not a Aggie fan but the military traditions and 102,000 incredible fans and the parade of the Cadets with one of the best bands in the world certainly deserves to be higher but it’s your list.
As a huge Aggie fan it is a bit surprising it's not higher. With traditions like the yell leaders and midnight yell as well.
Yup 10 for sure. Plus the War Hymn is a unique tune. I swear half the teams in the US do Sweet Caroline these days. Also, another thumbs up to UF for doing Tom Petty in the Swamp.
Listen to Mike leaches take on Rabid A&M FANATICALs and Kyle Field, RIP coach, an American Treasure
@@callumengland6395 meh it's just one person's list. I'm a longhorn but always loved hearing and watching your band at halftime. They are incredible.
I'm a Longhorn but A&M should above Texas and in the top 5. FSU should be #1. LoL @ "traditions" based on songs from the 90s or 2000s. What a joke of a list.
“Rocky Top will always be home sweet home me. Good ol Rocky Top. Rocky Top Tennessee.” Go Vols! 🧡🧡🧡
Its great to be a Tennessee Vol!
@@musicismyname419 V-O-L-S
GBO🍊!!!
@@musicismyname419 is it really though?
@@polareb16 yes IT SURE IS I LOVE The VOLS TOO DO YOU GUYS Watch the LADY VOLS my FREIND TESS DARBY plays for us for women basketball
College football is the best sport in the world hands down
Austin’s Highlights well it’s clearly not though is it
Ski Dog no, it clearly is
Christopher Ryan Gay so sad you think fans that rely on music to create atmosphere is the best sport in the world
Ski Dog we don’t rely on music you dumbass😂😂every college football team in America has a song that the team is known by and it’s usually played when the team takes the field and that’s all this video is showing. I can’t imagine being so simple minded as you are to think that just because fans sometimes use music to get hype that it means we can’t just get hype when watching the game. What a loser
Ski Dog you can’t talk shit about a sport when you’ve clearly never been to one of the games o just keep your mouth shut before you embarrass yourself even more
I'm an Alabama fan and grad, but I got some serious goose bumps every time I hear Country Roads and it shows West Virginia's home stadium. Simply amazing. UWV home game is on my bucket list just so I can sing Country Roads with the crowd.
its WVU though just saying and thanks for being one of few people not to trash us. I can't wait for our home and home serious coming up .
That tradition is nothing to the Eagle Flight. Not that you would recognize that-you did graduate from a school that has the best team money can buy.
Dixieland Delight at Bryant Denny is also pretty cool
@@chrisculverhouse7079 You're funny. I agree the eagle flight at Jerkin Hair Stadium is a great tradition. Now that comes from when you were Alabama Polytechnic Institute Eagles, right? But I prefer how your fans reenact the lynchings that took place in Lee County by symbolically throwing toilet paper rolls over tree branches in Doomer's Corner. But I guess they didn't teach you that is where that tradition comes from.
Okay so I had a thought and I’d like to know what you think. Shouldnt bamas entry have been dixieland delight?
#20 is so heartwarming ❤
I've seen many a college fan video, but this whole thing gave me goosebumps. Every scene was like a video game! I've been to huge sporting events in the UK and Europe, but now its my dream to attend at least a few of these games.
from start to finish, the college games are an experience. from the start of pregame when the band comes out, that’s a concert in itself, some go above and beyond with the national anthem, including a bit of pyro for a couple parts, some even include a flyover, then the big moment when the teams come out of the tunnel. just the whole experience, you have to be there.
Shout out to my boy John Denver for making Country Roads possible even though he's gone his legend is still remembered
I Know because my friend is a west VIRIGINA fan I am a VOLS FAN
I love John Denver, so I love that his legacy lives on at West Virginia University sports games.
Country roads gets me every time
The best, go Mountaineers
@@cheryljames4035 Our chant of Let's Go Mountaineers! Should be there too As long as we've done it! Penn State got 2 entries!
Also our version of Sweet Caroline 😁
@@304ssg It should. Really. I'm serious. No, that's is a lie. Who are you?
Let's Go!
I love how when country roads played for West Virginia the sun came out, love west virginia
As an Arkansas Razorback fan, I’m slightly shocked that “Calling The Hogs” didn’t make the list. Woo Pig Sooie!
That’s all I needed to know. Not even gonna watch now
It's because calling the hogs is dog sh#t
10000% agree! No matter who or where you are whenever you hear the "HOG CALL" (like it or not) you know exactly what & where it is....RAZORBACK NATION!!!!
Every time I hear the chant "We are Penn State" I get chills up and down my body.
same here! Ive never experienced anything like a stadium filled with drunken Pennsylvanians yelling that chant!
Turn the shower water on the hot setting.
I hate USC… but the fact the Penn State We Are thing was taken back by some cheerleaders from a Rose Bowl in the 70’s makes me laugh…. Go Bruins!
It's the best and loudest stadium in the western hemisphere!!! I am a die hard Penn State fan, and a white out, is literally a bucket list for everyone!! Nothing compares at all!!! We are
I always hear "we want penn state" lmao
Aggie War Hymn was played after every over time vs LSU and being there is a crazy experience because it got louder after every overtime.
I love The Aggie War Hymn, Noble Men of Kyle, The Spirit of Aggieland. But my favorite from the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band is Patton.
Weren't there 6? I wanna say? Kyle Field a bucket list, my parents went, would have rather gone than thrown a party, shits real, party's come n go..
The atmosphere in college football is so much more energetic compared to NFL crowds, and I believe the college players play with more passion and energy compared to the overpaid pro players, and the atmosphere has something to do with that.
I personally love both Iowa’s wave and Wisconsin singing jump around!
THE WAVE! I love that you included it here even though it's fairly new. That hospital is doing so much good, and I know for a fact the kids love it, as I heard one of the kiddos at work talking about how neat it was when she was there for a short stay
How can anyone not like that wave?
Alabama fan here, but Wisconsin's is freaking awesome ! No one comes close to that . Winner by far ! ! !
listen, rammer jammer and dixieland delight always will give you chills, and I come from what I call, the boring half of the college division. not knocking them, but the crowd ain’t as hype as you!
BTW, I’m in southern California, and just me, but UCLA is the closest we’re gonna get to hype as you in bama.
Rocky Top sung (at TN games) and Country Roads (sung at West Virginia games), in my opinion, are the top 2 song traditions in collegiate athletics, hands down!
Fa real. TN fan so I maybe biased, but no idea how Rocky Top was rated below Pitt fans singing sweet Caroline
I totally agree! They are perfect and have the states' names in the original lyrics so they are unique to those states.
Go vols
@@mikeallison5549 When they sing Sweet Caroline at a Pitt game, the opposing team frequently inserts "Eat $hit Pitt" into the song.
Number 2 with Jump Around was the best to me. I feel the commitment if you can get thousands of people to jump and sing a song word for word. That’s a sick tradition. I don’t even know the school but if I had the opportunity to go to their home game I would jump around like I was an alumni 😂
WIsconsin
Alma Maters performed after Army-Navy Game with winner "Singing Second" is more than a tradition, it affirms their commitment to serve in US military defending our country.
as an OSU Buckeye I will say as cool as Stadium Ohio is, Carmen Ohio has to be the best tradition. Gives me full body chills every time we sing it.
As a Carolina fan, I am honored you put my team at number 4. And Im also honored you put my home state’s college at number 1. #ForeverToThee #NittanyLions ♥️🐓🖤 💙🗻🦁🤍
Yes sir let’s go Tar Heels 🐏🩵👣
Carolinas is pretty mid tbh
I'm an Ohio State guy but "Jump Around" in Madison is freaking awesome!
Was even better today at the shoe ;)
@@heyshipwreck5445 You're god damn right it was :)
This Penn Stater agrees
Badger fan here! Love them at two (that's were I'd put Jump Around!) #1 is whole heartedly Iowa's children's hospital!!! That's too great!! Sorry, #20 should be #1!!
Bret is right!
Anthony Gregory if only u guys won more than 5 games a year
Anthony Gregory u right ig, my teams r minny and Clemson
It's new but its def up there. but i know how college football is with tradition.
"#20 should be #1!!!" ...agreed. Penn State should have only received a single mention. there are other colleges around .
Great list. I’m biased but Wisconsin’s jump around is really hard to beat. Been doing it since 1998 when drew brees came to town and we beat them in a nail biter. Great traditions all around. Love college football
As both an OSU and Gator fan Won't Back Down and O-H-I-O hold a special place in heart but I absolutely love Sandstorm.
Agreed. O-H!
@@johnpotter8793 I-O!
Oh Wow! I am in Ohio State fan to and love the Gators Won't back down song tradition. I think Tom Petty was from the Gainesville area.
@@tonyblair8797 He was! UF started the tradition to honor him.
@@Issie0981 U-S-C! U-S-C! U-S-C!!
Im a swede but just watching this makes me wanna be american !
CJanA Always room for one more.
yep, y’all are always welcome here, no matter where you’re from.
Come on over after the coronavirus
Yes always room for our Swedish cousins. But bring some beer with you; ours sucks!
Another great tradition is watching Ralphie run the stampede for Colorado
okimojo Or watching the Sooner Schooner tip over lmao
@@420clubber lmfao classic
Run Ralphie Run! GO CU!
okimojo How they not even make the list? Absurd Running Ralphie IV is a trademark Cmon man!! CU Later Buffs
Definitely should have been on the list.
In the end I didn't get how Wisconsin lost to the Penn State. True story of my life: I'm from Europe (living in Portugal); my fav colour is green, my eyes are green, I chosed to cheer the GB Packers, I love Jump around and then I find out this colledge football team from the same state Wisconsin with this amazing tradition. So basically in footbal right now I am all in Wisconsin fan lol. This is kind of strange no? What do you think ?
Perhaps, but we dont need to question it. The comraderies and the rivalries make it fun. Just enjoy! A town I worked in had a huge Portuguese population, and so it had Portuguese bars/restaurants. They are crazy about THEIR football(soccer). As a non-Portuguese i went in to see what the fuss9excitement) was about. Even though i wasnt Portuguese(still not, btw ;) ) i got to enjoy the atmosphere and everyone accepted me! Thats what makes sports fun! Enjoy being a Badgers fan!
Even when they do it against my dawgs, the LSU “neck” chant is just the greatest thing
The Krypton fanfare or something should have been on here at least. Go Dawgs!
They get fined for playing it though. Their touchdown “Tigers!” chant is much more hype. I don’t know how people forget about it.
Trying to figure out when Pittsburgh had that many people in their stands..
Josh Salmons whenever penn states in town
Penn state also copied Pitt with sweet Caroline
And Pitt used to be good
@@Cdogg2 Even when they were good they did not fill stadium unless played Penn State or ND. Ok maybe during Dorset or Marino playing days.
Kurt Greaser they filled up games when McCoy fitz Conner and Donald were there too
" Sweet Caroline" , Good song but hardly gets you fired up to go punch someone in the mouth, maybe hug a tree."
It’s more to bring the crowd together. Video doesn’t do either psu tradition justice. It’s insane, especially during a white out. The noise is overbearing.
damekids I agree as an Alabama fan the ‘ white out’ is pretty awesome to see . I would love to see in person I have only seen it on TV and it is awesome.
Yeah unless your waiting at a hockey game!
@@biglebowski923 As a Penn State fan, envious of your in state rivalry with Auburn! having two perennially good programs competing with each other, and your Iron Bowl must be amazing fun!
@@inconnu4961 I’m old enough to remember when Penn State and Pittsburgh was a big game. When Pitt had Dan Marino and Cavanaugh ,Tony Dorset. Yes, Alabama / Auburn is an intense rivalry and is fun when you win but sucks when you lose. LOL. Roll Tide /. Go Nittany Lions. You all are a class act . I respect your program.
If you have never been to a Tennessee game, you should! It is amazing how the whole staidium chants rocky top. Even some people had to put on silent headphones.
That's a great one!
Ohio State "Hang on Sloopy" at the 3rd qt is pretty great, also script Ohio at half..
How FSUs war chant isn’t number one I have no clue and I’m a Bama fan #RollTide!!
Every college football game has their own tradition. Being from Wisconsin, there is nothing like Jump Around. The whole stadium literally shakes.
As a Gator, I visited last season and was basically in the student section. Unreal.
They had to stop it for a bit to reenforce the stadium 😂
VT enter sandman registers on the seismograph
Jennifer G VT enter sandman is on a different level of shaking
@@roccolobosco8834 indeed
Big Bama fan. Taking my three grown sons to see a Wisconsin home game this year so we can "Jump around".. I don't think anything comes close to this, but all these are wonderful.
Tuscaloosa native here. I'm going to see Bama at Wisconsin in '25. Jump Around is pretty awesome.
The absolute best college level tradition would have to be the post Army/Navy game where the cadets gather in the each zone and sing each others' Hymns.
That's actually really cool.
“How is _______ not #1?!” Watches PSU entrance.... “Oh, makes sense.”
Yep thank you penn state reigns supreme🦁🤍💙
Maybe with the exception of Country Roads or the Kinnick Wave
Watched it. Ehhh...I'll take the Huskers tunnel walk any day.
@@OmahaGirl 😂😂
@@OmahaGirl The one they showed wasnt as electric as experiencing it in person! I think if you experienced it in person, you would be convinced!
Dude, how did Auburns " all I do is win" make it. But not the flight of the eagle?
That's what i was thinking same with 2001 space Odyssey for SC instead of sandstorm
The eagle flying has to be one of the most amazing things at a college football game
Same here. I thought it’s at least a top 5
Never heard of reverse rammer jammer and I live in Alabama.
In all honesty, this list kinda sucks.
So Auburn just steals our chant and they get on this list thats a joke
That's what I was thinking! Whoever put this together don't sh*t about tradition's! We still hold 47-37-1 Iron bowl record! Grew up in Lee County! Guess that's why I dislike them soo much! ROLL TIDE! They still have a long way to go to get to 18 National Championships!
because everyone hates you guys, that's it
@@foxiflakes8245 they hate us cause we’re the best team
@@taylorhill8270 this is why
@@foxiflakes8245 cause we’re the best, ever since saban came we’ve been the best🤷♂️
Country roads chants are amazing!!!
As an LSU fan I am very happy but was not expecting Neck to make it lmao.
Caleb McCready should be higher in my opinion. Right? That’s cool
Huge FSU fan but I do enjoy seeing LSU Do that it is awesome 😂
Even though I don’t agree 100% with the list...damn I love college football fans.
The most compassionate fans of any sport or league
college football IS the best sport on this Green and Blue planet.
I agree!
It has one main thing that even the pro's don't have: FIGHT SONGS. I enjoy listening to a lot of the school songs, and when able to see them in person, it's even better.
College football fans are awesome!
The Boomer Sooner chant is one of my favorite things about OU game days. But I gotta say, I wish you had the Sooner Schooner riding out after scores and the Ruf Neks firing their guns as well. The atmosphere at Gaylord Memorial Stadium on saturdays is very hard to beat. BOOMER!
I have to ask, with regard to #3, how do you not include the planting of the spear in the clip? It's kind of an important part of that tradition. Solid list though.
Freshman in the OSU band and didn’t get to do ramp this year.... Even standing on the sideline gave me chills the first time I was down there for stadium Ohio. I can’t wait to feel what that’s like on the field with a stadium packed full of people when we play that team up north
Congrats on making it into the TBDBITL!
I’m in the Carolina band and I’m excited to step off for my first pregame show this Saturday
Tom petty and John Denver would be proud of so many young and drunk people loving and knowing their songs. Lol
Tom Petty was a Gainesville native. We started singing the song in tribute for him when he passed as a memorial. He's "Gainesville's Greatest Son."
God I love Zombie Nation as a Penn State fan. I’m very happy that it’s #1 on this list!! WE! ARE! PENN! STATE!
We own Penn state
My buck list is to go to all of these places just to experience each tradition. So awesome 😃
Jump Around- Go Bucky! ON WISCONSIN!!
I agree!!! but, they forgot the singing of "Varsity". Brings a tear to my eye every time I hear it.
Fuck off go blue hail to the victors
Jerry indeed. Varsity is one of those spine tingling tear jerking moments where you just feel some kinda way
I'm a Penn St fan 1st and a big 10 fan second. So I love PSU and Wisconsin being #1 & 2. With that said, Florida St has the best in game chant.
Yes - very distracting- however, did they do away with it recently??
@@DCAbsolutJohn1 nope. Play it still. Mostly during defensive plays.
I've been a PSU fan since the 1960's. WE ARE.....
@@DCAbsolutJohn1 No. Florida State has a very close connection to the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the tribe understands there is no disrespect when doing the Tomahawk Chop. FSU also provides/offers members of the tribe a free education at Florida State. Osceola and Renegade along with the chop is hands down the best especially when you get to see it in person.
I thought Penn State's #1 tradition was molesting little boys in the shower..
Singing "Dixieland Delight" at Alabama games should definitely be on the list
dixieland delight is a song about tennessee.
@@RylanMoffitt True. Never understood why it became a Bama thing.
A song about Tennessee? Never understood that. Now, the Sweet Home Alabama song is another thing. That should have been included.
@@RylanMoffitt The band itself is called Alabama
Brett Oppenheimer and the song is about a road in tennessee.
Let’s Go PSU always gives me chills- even more than Sweet Caroline, and zombie Nation makes everyone go nuts, but I know you can’t have 3 PSU Things. Let Pitt have Sweet Caroline, I like the let’s go PSU chant- especially with a whiteout.
Back in nebraska's glory days, the tunnel walk was the most feared tradition for any visiting team. It was truly intimidating, and the entire stadium chanting, HU-SKER POW-ER. Coaches would keep there teams in the locker room until the tunnel walk finished, to keep their guys nerves together.
Did you read that in a history book? That was so long ago...when Nebraska played winning football..a faded memory...see y'all in Norman next year.. bring your memory..and your camera.. Boomer!
@@stoopstified7376 A faded memory? For whom? Why so bitter about the truth? Definitely not a faded memory for any true football fan dimwit.
And other teams having to practice with loud speakers playing the crowd noise from a Husker game because the noise was deafening...nothing like they'd experienced before. Great memories!
@@OmahaGirl Oh Shannon,live on In your memories... sorry about your season,....... making decades if loser memories... 🤭..so sad for the Husker children
@@OmahaGirl You aint very good at smack talk! next time, just ignore them.
I went to Wisconsin game once and it was something when Jump Around comes on. The stadium is literally shaking, I hope it don't fall one day! People just wait all game for the opening riff. Nebraska is also a great place to visit if you ever get a chance
Yeah we have a habit of having the rictor scale go off the charts you can feel the man made earthquake a couple of milea outside of camp randall
Tunnel Walk at UNL is pretty dope
They actually have reinforced the stadium since that tradition started in Madison. Its crazy that no matter where you are in the stadium, you can feel it shaking
Talk about shaking fucking UCF bro, The Bounce house. In the student section the metal shit will get you a extra six inches of air. the stadium is rebuilt every summer.
Mark, Thank you for making "Penn State Zombie Nation" your #1 Pick. From a Nittany Lion fan since the mid 1960's.
I love the Hawkeye wave to the children hospital. That’s my number 1
Ralphie running at CU is a pretty awesome tradition. It should have made any list of best traditions.
I'm a Bama fan but that damn jump around is something I want to experience
mbizzle03 the student section always chants fuck you, eat shit and chants beer
The whole upper deck sways slightly. Announcers up in the press box have commented on how their drinks will start to move or how pens/pencils will roll off of their table tops during jump around. They even reinforced the stadium with more steel and concrete than it originally had for safety reasons, and you can still feel it.
mbizzle03 it’s pretty cool
I'm a Florida state fan and I want to experience it to. also GG in 2017 can't wait for the series against us coming up in few years
I was able to watch the Michigan Wisco game last year, and let me tell you, it’s an incredible experience, jump around is something different
LSU’s neck chant is very iconic with a full stadium 🤣
Go noles In my opinion the best chant and tradition because of all it's history and of course chief Osceola and renegade the horse is just legendary
Let us not forget the Wabash Cannonball at Kansas State University. Absolutely incredible
Hopefully there is a video. Sounds intriguing!
How could the stadium wave to Children's Hospital not be number one hands down???
Jason Nelson it's become a great tradition and great thing for the fans and kids but it is brand new and I based the list on how the traditions get the crowd going and the traditions that have been around longer can be identified well with the team and fan base. Again no disrespect at all to the wave though. It is a nice touch and amazing support for the kids in the hospital.
Mark Wilson that's totally understandable... I tear up everytime I see the wave, it's so classy
It's easily the best gesture (it beats the hell out of doing something as stupid as rolling your own trees with tons of toilet paper like a bunch of damn idiots), but I don't think it's recognized across the entire college football world as a signature "Iowa tradition" that everyone is familiar with. I mean, I'd never heard of this before. I didn't know Iowa even did this. I believe that in order to top the charts on a college football traditions list, your own fans not only need to be passionate about doing it, but everyone else outside of your school also should recognize it as your particular school's thing that they do as well. To be at the top of the list you're going to need something as synonymous with a school as "dotting the i" (Ohio State), Touchdown Jesus (Notre Dame), planting the spear (FSU), and winning the national championship (Alabama)*. *(Okay I got a little arrogant there, but I think you get my point 😉😉)
Exactly I have season tickets it brings chills down my spine
Because it's not.
Being in the student section for neck at tiger stadium was the greatest thing ever seen.
Yeah it’s a shame whoever made this list would rather put pre recorded songs playing over speakers over a true fan experience
I’m watching this before band practice with the Pride and it gives me a good feeling
Personally I think Rocky Top should be top 5. Also, I’ve never seen another team take over an away stadium like Ohio St did when they played in Norman, OK. And that was even after a really long rain delay. I was glad to see Boomer Sooner as high as it was. Gives me chills every time I hear it live.
If songs from the 90s or 2000s can make the top 5, then pretty soon the new #1 will be based on a song like Wet Ass Pu$$y.
Cowbells and Don’t Stop Believing at Mississippi State are always one worth noting. Even when the team isn’t winning a whole lot, that atmosphere is always electric
Was disappointing that it wasn’t in this video. Hail State and go to hell ole piss dear friend.
Rocky Top will ALWAYS be home sweet home to me.
As a Nebraska fan the tunnel walk is insane, but the balloons after the first points scored by Nebraska is something else
Not anymore it isnt
As a Miami fan I got to admit. There’s nothing like that tomahawk chop and chant
Even I as a Florida Gators fan have to agree with that. That war chant, combined with the tomahawk chop and the chief on the horse planting the burning spear is hands down the best tradition in college sports. Or maybe even in all of sports.
How about the fact the game can go sideways really fast if the fsu football team decides to raid the Seminole museum at halftime. Comeback with real spears and tomahawks and take out and slaughter the visiting team.
It's pretty dope, but Oklahoma has the best way of using that tradition against Florida State
I’m disappointed in you both. That chant is cancer and makes me want to vomit
Gator Guy then you’re just a dumbass. That chant is hype af and I can’t stand the criminoles
I have been to a couple different games wvu is pretty good along with Tennessee but I'm telling you Virginia Tech entrance is just ass kicking you can feel the damn stadium vibrating below you. It is a lot of dedication there win or lose that place is always packed.
I'm guessing that Penn States'colors are white and white 😁😁 When you get tickets to a West Virginia game it tells you what color to wear according to what section you are in 😁 it looks really good 😊
Navy Blue and White. The clip here is from a Whiteout game, where everyone in the stadium wears white for big games. We do it once a year, plus, now, a stripe-out and some other things where they do encourage you to wear a certain color based upon your section. We’ve been doing the Whiteout for many years. Now, everyone else has hopped on that wagon with their own versions. Thieves, haha.
@@airmobiledivision7759 that's cool 😎 and of course people try to steal it because it's a great idea 😊😊
As a gamecock student. My first sandstorm was amazing it’s very cheesy but it’s so fun and in the end you get a free souvenir a towel that said who we played. We also have a really intense student section. I also love when we sing Patrick David “Official” song. We have many traditions durning the game
Enjoy the days. You will look back fondly of them very often in your life!
That Country Roads is just awesome
Calling the Hogs at ARKANSAS is The best and most unique cheer ever! (period)
Franklin Waddell I live in Rogers near the university and I’m an LSU fan so everytime I’m at school or something and they call the hogs I just sit there😂
Shameful to leave out the hog call.
Leaving out Calling the Hogs but putting in some of the other not so unique chants that every school does is ludicrous
What's wrong with these guys?
Nothing beats 88,000 people singing rammer jammer after beating Alabama. The 2010 one in Bryant Denny, and the 2013 one in Jordan hare(one in the video I think) are probably the best.
2:59 you hear that many people singing and you can't help but smile.
I didn't know Iowa did that for the Children's Hospital that's awesome
As a Penn Stater, what you put as #1 I do agree is a great tradition. But the thing you put as #20, is, IN FACT, THE. BEST. TRADITION. EVER.
Its a new tradition. its a great sentiment and i believe everyone agrees with you there! Go Penn State!
Class act to say that !!!
Couldn't help chanting "EAT SHIT PITT" during Sweet Caroline 😂😂 man WVU needs to be in the ACC. I miss our team rivalries
The good ol' backyard brawl! Not a fan of either school, but the animosity was real!!!
Same., Lol
Great list. As a Penn Stater, My top five would be Jump Around, Penn State White Out, VT's "Enter Sandman", Clemson, West Virginia. 6-10: FSU (but i can't stand the damn chant), Ohio State dotting the 'I' (more impressive than spelling a four letter word), the Iowa Wave, Rocky Top, & Texas A&M. I did not even know that South Carolina Sandstorm was even a thing until now
I was at that first Wisconsin-Purdue game in 98 when they played Jump Around for the first time. I was a UW junior in the Student Section. It was a night game for homecoming, Drew Brees vs. Ron Dayne, absolutely crazy stupid offensive matchup. Think Brees threw for like 8000 yards that game LOL. Since it was a night game, obviously everybody was super drunk by that point and the game was still close, maybe even tied after three quarters. During the TV break before the start of the 4th quarter the opening horns of House of Pain comes on and me and and my three friends-all hiphop heads, KHB 400 block West Wilson represent! Haha-we all start rapping along and pushing each other around and pogo-ing, which starts to crate this little mosh pit, which then spreads and connects with other similar groups of drunken fans, etc. by the time the first chorus hit you could see most of the two middle student sections jumping (a LOT of falling off bleachers too 😄). By the end of the first chorus pretty much everybody in those 5 sections was jumping. They actually played most of (if not all) of the track that night, because when the second chorus came up shit was straight up apeshit, like fights, lot of stuff getting thrown, tits out and whatnot. My 16 year old brother was with me too that night. He was like “Is it always like this?! College is rad.” Good times.
Sounds like a great memeroy! This song was ALWAYS popular at the clubs, and i remember it from the year it came out!
"tits out, whatnot..." lmaololololzzz...crazee shit, man. I love it.
The Virginia Tech entrance is so badass
The video used here wasnt a good video for it either
My dad and I have been to 35 stadiums. We go to a new one, sometimes 2 every year. God I love college football.
We just did a doubleheader in Mississippi. We saw Alabama at Ole Miss and Georgia at Miss St. both awesome stadiums. Ole Miss was incredible. One of these days I need to compile a top ten list.
As A Sooner fan, I respectfully put Florida State’s Warchant as the face of College Football’s best tradition and its NOT even close.
Well boi's we made it to number 6 lets go this makes me proud to be from West Virginia
Im a Michigan State student, and I love all our awesome traditions and customs. Im thankful to be included on the list! To be honest though, while our YES, chant is solid, it pales in comparison to our "Go Green, Go white" tradition. It gets so much louder and prouder, and I can see the enemy team's players get a little unsettled when the entire stadium joins in the chorus. It's by far stronger and more of a tradition than our YES chant, not going to lie. Just seeing one entire side of the stadium roar with go green and then the entire other side of the stadium roar back with go white, it is kind of awe-inspiring to feel. I'm sure it isn't a welcome sight for the visiting team of course. It is really pretty awesome, and I would say it is hanging around up there with even the O-H-I-O chant, with the power of the stadium behind it and everything. And that's saying something.Thanks again for including one of our traditions on the list. THe Go Green Go White chant is by far a more mighty one I would say.
Why have you taken to call your wee stadium the woodpile?
Lololol
SPARTANS what is your profession!?
AH OOOOOO AH OOOOH
The Iowa Wave is the best thing in Sports
I love it!!!
It is
Hands Down the "Iowa Wave is the Best Tradition in college football" And this is coming from a Iowa State Cyclone fan!!!
It really is very classy.
Northwestern when they used to be the losingest team in div 1 ... "That's all right, that's okay...you're gonna work for us some day!"
LOL
I agree, don't forget also shaking their luxury cars while chanting that.
This is one of the best list
I was at the game in Auburn at #12when they did that. It was the 2013 Georgia game and I will never forget how electric that place was and it sent shivers down my spine. An SEC game at Jordan Hare is amazing and I think every college football fan should do it.
Just make sure Harsin isn't our coach for peak crowd excitement.
Penn state at number 1 made me cry been to the white out game against Michigan most electrifying thing ever